[Chewbarkah]

The large Sack of Defense let it out the other day that US bases under the balloon’s path had been ordered to “button up” and curtail communications to thwart the balloon’s mission.

So the Biden administration accommodated the Chinese rather than confronting it, likely on the typical government folly of surveilling the threat discretely, so the perpetrator wouldn’t know that we know. Simply brilliant — that has never gone wrong before. The only reason two balloons have been shot down now is because the public knows.

[BikerJoe]

The large Sack of Defense let it out the other day that US bases under the balloon’s path had been ordered to “button up” and curtail communications to thwart the balloon’s mission.

And yet an F-22 painted it with its radar and then launched a (presumably) radar guided missile to take it down. If I was a smart Chicom, I'd have anticipated this and ensured all those signals were recorded and transmitted to a satellite before shootdown.